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National City New Toy
What rights do we have as residents when traffic cameras are pumping out traffic tickets instead of sworn police officers? I do not agree with the processing of evidence by photos and video by a contractor hired by the city instead of law enforcement. I feel that this is violating my rights [...]

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Letters to the Editor
OPEN LETTER TO:
Chunky Sanchez
Park Steering Committee
Brother Chunky
As, you are about to celebrate another Milestone Park Day, I thought it would be important to share with you a bit of history related to the take over of the park that has often been overlooked. Specifically, I have reference to Charlie Vasquez, George Baca [...]

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Past redevelopment efforts in Chula Vista have failed. Why do more of the same?
Three council members want to expand redevelopment project areas to include more residentially-zoned properties.
Redevelopment diverts property tax revenue away from public safety like fire and police and other areas like libraries and parks for the whole city. Listen carefully east side.
Why, because [...]

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Veteran’s Memorial destroyed, needs repair
In the heart of Bonita, between the Library and Museum, terrorists destroyed and desecrated the Veterans’ Memorial over the Christmas holiday. Under the cover of darkness, with nothing productive to do with their time, the cowards stole an American flag dedicated to honor our veteran heroes, both living and deceased. As [...]

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Questions asked, now waiting for the answers!
For myself I am happy to see 2009 go. My hopes are high for 2010 – an improving economy with lots of jobs for all. My wishes on the local level are more mundane but are urgently felt. When is someone going to tell us the outcome of the $100,000 [...]

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Spare change?
This latest caper in the great Charger Chase reminds me of a trip I took many years ago for some well deserved middle-aged mischief in Mexicali. As I was waiting in line to return to the good old USA this lady came to the car. It turns out she wasn’t selling gum or porcelain [...]

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The Land Grab
At a time when our City services are already stretched too thin, the Chula Vista Mayor and Council want to expand the City’s redevelopment areas to include residential properties. This proposed land grab will divert funding away from essential services, such as police and fire, and staff needed to run libraries. By law, [...]

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Redevelopment coming to a neighborhood near you?
Our mayor and City Council are likely to impose another top down decision on the uninformed citizens of Chula Vista. On Dec 15, when people are focusing on the holidays, the City will be starting the process to expand redevelopment into residential areas.
Would voters agree to do this with [...]

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 National City must return ill-gotten gains
The driving force of tax-generation has blinded National City’s Mayor Ron Morrison and city staff from seeing that questionable and illegal methods are not OK. This was rightly stated by Herman Baca and covered in La Prensa on October 30, 2009.
When National City stopped collecting the fees on business licenses, [...]

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An Open Letter to Mayor Cox
 I served on the C.V. Economic Development Commission when the city was working on its Vision 2020 back then. Education was a key component of that vision to attract high paying high tech and biomedical companies to the future Otay business parks.
 Due to budget cuts and differences in focus and [...]

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Kevin O’Neill doing it the hard way
 Kevin O’Neill laments someone has called him greedy and a predator; he was overheard calling his detractors Luddities. It would all be funny if that was all there was to it.
 Actually he has been throwing his weight around on the 600 Block of Second Avenue for a long time. [...]

Statement from Assemblymember Marty Block on the Veto of Assembly Bill 24

Yesterday (Tuesday) I learned that among the bills Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed was AB 24, the bill I authored that would have provided a feasibility study (using no state funds) for a new California State University campus in Chula Vista.
When built, that university would create thousands of quality jobs, increase local property values, boost San Diegoxs [...]

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Chula Vista council members makes hasty appointment
 Acting with unprecedented speed, the Chula Vista City Council led by members Pamela Bensoussan and Rudy Ramirez, hastily appointed long time political allies Mitch Thompson and former Mayor Steven Padilla to the Council and Port seats respectively.
 The selection and appointments of Thompson and Padilla culminate several weeks worth of [...]

SDSU President, Stephen Weber, Responds to Enrollement issue at SDSU

 Editor’s Note: The following is in response to the commentary in La Prensa San Diego, “An Open letter to the Board of Trustees and Chancellor Charles B. Reed, California State University System,” by Gracia Molina de Pick, published Sept. 18, 2009, written in response to SDSU’s new admissions policy.

An Open Letter to the SDSU Community
 As [...]

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City of Chula Vista appointment process has many in the community upset over the process

 Editor’s Note:  The city council for the City of Chula Vista had hoped for a fast and expediate process this past Tuesday in filling the seat for the absent council member John McCann. The plan was to have a council member [...]

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From the Middle Down
 As a native Southern California, a veteran of the Korean conflict and a good countryman, I would like to help the suffering economy in our country. I am speaking of our prison system and the cost of housing these prisoners.
 I am speaking of releasing the foreign prisoners who have a release date. [...]

Tortillas – Tecate Beer – Spanish Music?

By Herman Baca, President
Committee on Chicano Rights
 Ninteen Hundred and Seventy Nine… as I prepared to journey to attend a National Mecha conference in Denver Colorado I remember walking into my living room and hearing a local TV news reporter interviewing a farmer in San Ysidro (along the U.S./Mexico border) as to why his cows were not [...]